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UPPER AND LOWER CASE THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHICS W PUBLISHED BY INTERNATIONAL TYPEFACE CORPORATION, VOLUME TWELVE, NUMBER FOUR, FEB 1986
The first Herb Luba in Internctional Stuccnt Design Competition cchievec worlc wide interest cnc internctionc I acclaim, It crew entries reflecting the efforts of more thcn 900 cesign stucents on five continents. The jury, imoressec oy the crectivi-y anc civcrsi-y of the su omissions, chose 77 oboes, which inciucoc oosters, books, sculptures anc games, for cn cxhioit ct the ITC Center last foil. See page 38
"IN WEIGHING THE FATE OF THE EARTH AND, WITH IT, OUR OWN FATE, WE STAND OFBEFORE A MYSTERY, AND IN TAMPERING WITH THE EARTHTHE WE TAMPER WITH A MYSTERY. WE ARE IN DEEP IGNORANCE. OUR IGNORANCE SHOULD DISPOSE US TO WONDER, OUR WONDER SHOULD MAKE US HUMBLE, OUR HUMILITY SHOULD INSPIRE US TO REVERENCE AND CAUTION, AND OUR REVERENCE AND CAUTION SHOULD LEAD US TO ACT WITHOUT DELAY TO WITHDRAW THE THREAT WE NOW POSE TO THE EARTH AND TO OURSELVES!" —FROM THE FATE OF THE EARTH BY JONATHAN SCHELL
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VOLUME TWELVE, NUMBER FOUR, FEBRUARY, 1986
EDITOR: EDWARD GOTTSCHALL ART DIRECTOR: BOB FARBER To some this will appear déjà vu; to But today, as the large library of graphic EDITORIAL DIRECTORS: AARON BURNS, EDWARD RONDTHALER ASSOCIATE EDITOR: MARION MULLER others it will be interesting new arts typefaces becomes increasingly ASSISTANT EDITOR: JULIET TRAVISON CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: ALLAN HALEY information. available to laser printers and other out- RESEARCH DIRECTOR: RHODA SPARBER LUBALIN ADVERTISING/PRODUCTION MANAGER: HELENA WALLSCHLAG put devices not dedicated to typography, ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: ILENE STRIZVER ART/PRODUCTION: KIM VALERIO,SID TIMM Sixteen years ago, when ITC was founded, nor part of the traditional typographic SUBSCRIPTIONS: ELOISE COLEMAN the best typeface designers were leaving market, the raison d'etre for typeface C INTERNATIONAL TYPEFACE CORPORATION 1986 U&LC (ISSN 0362 6245) IS PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY INTERNATIONAL TYPE- the field and young new talents were royalties needs to be restated. Typeface FACE CORPORATION, 2 DAG HAMMARSKJOLD PLAZA, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017. A JOINTLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF LUBALIN, BURNS & CO., INC. AND PHOTO- avoiding it. Why? It didn't pay. The year royalties are the most efficient way to LETTERING, INC. U.S SUBSCRIPTION RATES 510 ONE YEAR: FOREIGN SUBSCRIP- encourage and pay for the development TIONS, 515 ONE YEAR: U.S. FUNDS DRAWN ON U.S. BANK. FOREIGN AIR MAIL or more they might invest in a new de- SUBSCRIPTIONS-PLEASE INQUIRE. SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK, sign simply wasn't worth the financial and bringing to market of new designs, N.Y. AND ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES. POSTMASTER: SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO U&LC, SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT, 866 SECOND AVENUE, return, even if the design was accepted and the re-drawing and re-engineering of NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017. and marketed. The advent of ITC changed classic designs to meet the technological ITC FOUNDERS: AARON BURNS, PRESIDENT that. By paying a combination of an requirements of the computer age. The EDWARD RONDTHALER, CHAIRMAN EMERITUS HERB LUBALIN, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT 1970-1981 up-front fee for art and a lifetime pay- following questions and answers aim to ITC OFFICERS 1986: ment of ten percent of the income that make clear the why and how of typeface GEORGE SOHN, CHAIRMAN AARON BURNS, PRESIDENT ITC received for the designs, ITC assured royalties. The information is based on our EDWARD GOTTSCHALL, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT BOB FARBER, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT designers of a fair return for their work, own experience at International Typeface EDWARD BENGUIAT, VICE PRESIDENT ALLAN HALEY, VICE PRESIDENT established designers returned to the Corporation (ITC) resulting from the inter- RICHARD CONWAY, CONTROLLER AND GENERAL MANAGER market, and some exceptional new talent national scope of ITC's operations, and MICROFILM COPIES OF U&LC MAY BE OBTAINED FROM MICRO PHOTO DIVISION, BELL & HOWELL, OLD MANSFIELD ROAD, WOOSTER, OH 44691 was attracted to it. because that is what we know best.
In this issue: Editorial Q Why new typefaces? 0 Is that a lot? A little? For newcomers and old-timers—a recapitulation of ITC's A: Companies or individuals starting to A: To answer this question consider the purpose, policies and practices. Page 2 do their own typesetting need a basic following: In the era of metal typography library of typestyles to accommodate the text-type, the magazines for a family of J. M. Bergling design requirements of their communica- type matrices used on a Linotype type- A man who created, nurtured and wedded letterforms into tions and documents. Eventually they will setter for example, cost approximately artful monograms. Page 4 add to that library as they become more $7,500 to $10,000. And as the brass Drawing Pens and Drumsticks sensitive to the specific suitability of differ- matrices in the magazine wore out they ent typefaces to different kinds of mes- had to be replaced. Today's fonts cost This jazz buff improvises at the drawing board, as he does sages. Experienced typographic designers about $150 or less, including the ITC roy- on his drums. Page 8 often want new typeface designs despite alty, and they don't wear out. (If a font is Lou Myers the large library of existing type families. damaged accidentally, a replacement font Steve Heller dissects the art and the man. Page 12 The reasons are twofold:1) a sense of can be purchased without paying a sec- fashion, of wanting something new and a ond royalty.) Typographic Milestones little different. This same sense of fashion All about Aldus Manutius, the 16th century tycoon who drives much of our economy whether gave us portable books, italics and much more. Page 14 based on utilitarian objects or fashion Q Who pays the royalty? ITC Technology Update merchandise. 2) The technological need to A: The purchaser of the font. There is no modify a given typeface or its image per-use fee. The one-time royalty, if paid New hardware, new software, new capabilities and costs— carrier so that it will perform optimally on by a typographic service for example, is digested for quick and easy consumption. Page 18 new equipment. In such cases manufac- often fully recovered on the first job done Department of Weird, Wonderful and turers can re-engineer their existing with it, so that font purchasers really pay Useless Information designs accordingly. nothing toward the royalty. Just for chuckles. Page 20 For the user, switching machines and buying new fonts is much like what hap- FY(T)I (For your typographic information) pened when the record industry moved 0--O-.... What is the reason for A glossary of words and expressions for everyone who from 78 rpm discs to 33 1/3 and now is a royalty? communicates in print. Page 22 shifting to CDs (compact discs). It would A: Type users build type libraries to meet Lubalin H Contest be ideal from the user's viewpoint if the their design for printing or electronic new players were compatible with exist- publishing needs. ITC is one of a number A call for entries for the second annual Herb Lubalin ing discs but often such compatibility can of companies that develop new designs Student Design Contest. Page 24 only be achieved by compromises that and re-engineer existing ones to meet Families to Remember sacrifice more than they gain. those needs. It costs ITC approximately A review of some notable families—both genealogic and $200,000 to design and introduce a new typographic. Page 26 type family. This is true whether an origi- How much is the ITC nal design or a redesign of an existing Contest Winners, Lubalin I royalty? style is being introduced. Obviously, as in The winners of the first annual Herb Lubalin Student A: It varies, depending on how the type- any business, that investmerit must be Design Contest. Page 38 face is output. On a transfer sheet it can be recovered and a fair profit realized. ITC Alphabet as little as 5 cents per sheet purchased. For feels that royalties rather than flat fees the purchase of each lifetime film or digi- make the most sense. The Alphabet with 29 "Eyes:' Page 53 tal font that can output a full range of • sizes, in fine resolution, on a graphic arts This issue of U&lc was mailed to 192,000 readers: 145,000 in the quality typesetter or printer, the ITC royalty 0 Why the royalty route? United States and Canada, and 46,500 abroad. It will be read by approximately 1,000.000 people. is a one-time payment of $30.00. A: ITC's customers (the ITC Subscribers
INDEX TO ITC TYPEFACES
ITC AMERICAN TYPEWRITER® 22, 23, 30-33 ITC GARAMOND CONDENSED ® 14 ITC AVANT GARDE GOTHIC® FRONT COVER ITC LEAWOOD"' 20 ITC BOOKMAN9 22, 23, 34-37, BACK COVER ITC MIXAGE" 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 39-52 ITC CHELTENHAM® 24 ITC NEWTEXT® 2 ITC CLEARFACE9 25 ITC NOVARESE9 26-29 ITC CUSHING9 20 ITC SYMBOL.'" 24, 25 ITC ESPRIT'" 18, 19 ITC TIFFANY 22 ITC FRANKLIN GOTHIC® 2, 24, 25, 38 ITC USHERWOOD"' 2, 3, 21 FRONT COVER: ITC AVANT GARDE GOTHIC EXTRA LIGHT MASTHEAD, ITC NEWTEXT REGULAR FRIZ QUADRATA 20 ITC VELJOVIC'" 8-11, 21, 38 TABLE OF CONTENTS: ITC USHERWOOD BOOK ITALIC WITH BOLD ITALIC INDEX TO ITC TYPEFACES: ITC GALLIARD9 53 ITC WEIDEMANN'" 20 ITC FRANKLIN GOTHIC BOOK WITH DEMI ITC GARAMOND* 4-7, 14-17 3
EDITORIAL
ITC and typeface design-a restatement of principles and policies
listed elsewhere in this publication) pay no ■ Typeface designs, new ones, including added value that ITC typefaces offer is far money up front for the art supplied by ITC's, are now protected in West Germany greater than the one-time royalty which ITC. No payment is made until they manu- and in France. makes them possible. facture and sell their image carriers bear- ■ Typeface names are protectable in the United States and abroad. All ITC typeface ing ITC fonts. This is easy for them and --O What is the real value names are registered in the United States, 0■■•■ payments are usually passed on as part of of typeface design and name France, and Germany. the font price, and are tied to actual sales. protection? No one pays royalties for fonts that don't ■ Manufacturers protect their digital fonts To inhibit would-be copyists from sell—that don't meet a market need or from plagiarism by electronically linking A: unethically offering the creations of others demand. As with book and record publish- each font to a specific output device. as their own (and at lower prices since ers, the popular typefaces compensate for copying is much less costly than creating). the slower or poorer sellers. Throughout What is the connec- The copyists add no value to the market, the industry this system has been accepted tion, if any, between legal but they drive typeface designers out of as the most equitable to all concerned. protection and royalties? the market, since they pay absolutely A: None. As with anything else one buys, nothing to the artists who originate the Q What does ITC supply one pays for value received. In the case of typefaces. They can, if encouraged. dry up to its Subscribers? ITC typefaces you may be buying a design the creative source of this market. To see that this does not happen it is in the inter- A: Subscribers to the ITC licensing plan you can't get elsewhere, or a restyled and est of type users as well as type manufac- get analog (black and white) art from redesigned version of a traditional face, or turers and vendors to be vigilant and wary which they can make their film or digital a more fully developed typeface family of typeface copyists. fonts. The art is of high quality and is than is offered by another source. The engineered to be easily adapted to a wide range of machines. The art is critically 0 Aren't typeface de- sharp, consistent in size and detail, true in signs in the public domain? every stroke, serif and detail. This editorial In the United States, most are. But, as is not the place to heavily detail what this A: noted above, the royalty for a specific involves, but some idea of the skill and design and name is not a by-product of a care involved can be gleaned from the legal position. The presence or absence of fact that from the time ITC receives a de- legal protection has nothing to do with the signer's art and starts to manufacture the value of a typeface or any product or master analog art for its Subscribers, it takes service you purchase. What you pay is a more than a year before the art will be ap- straightforward marketing fact of life. You proved for release by the manufacturers. pay for value received.
Where does the Q And so, what's in a name? royalty go? 0--■.... A: As we wrote in U&lc in the summer of A: In addition to an up-front fee for pre- paring the original drawings the typeface 1983: "Good name in man and woman, designer is paid ten percent of all royalties dear my lord, the type family earns. The balance covers is the immediate jewel of their souls: the marketing cost (including USLIc) and "Who steals my purse steals trash; leaves a fair profit. When ITC was young 'tis something, nothing; and quite small, the royalty for a font, now "Twas mine,'tis his, and has been slave paying $30.00, was much higher. Very few to thousands; prices have fallen so dramatically in the But he that filches from me my good name past fifteen years. This became possible be- Robs me of that which not enriches him, cause the market for ITC faces expanded, And makes me poor indeed:' and as it did ITC was able to bring its unit Shakespeare, Othello, III,iii,155. royalty price down in a series of steps. Shakespeare's noble thought still applies As volume of sales rose, royalty prices today to those who "filch" typefaces and were reduced. names that belong to others; but it needs updating. Those who appropriate ITC's -....O Are typefaces pro- typefaces or, for example, hope to enrich 0-..... tected legally? themselves by using that which was de- veloped by others deprive both the owner A: This is a complex subject but, in sum- of the name and the designer of the type- mary, here are the key facts: ■ Typeface designs in the United States, face, of their just rewards. Edward M. Gottschall with rare exception, are not protected.
HEADLINE. ITC USHERWOOD BOLD ITALIC SUBHEAD' MEDIUM TEXT, BOOK WITH BLACK BYLINE. BLACK 4
John Mauritz Bergling's name has been set in ITC Gara- mond Bold Condensed' and superimposed on one of Mr. Bergling's hand-drawn illustrations.
LETTERFORM INVENTOR, MASTER ENGRAVER, ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST PROLIFIC-AND LEAST KNOWN-DESIGNERS AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, A FATHER OF ART DECO!
It's difficult to reconstruct the nu- Several little-known facts about Mr. En route, he stopped for a time in and for ensuring the high standards merous details of a person's life and Bergling are worth noting at this Kansas City, where he worked for a of the Peacock firm. achievements some 52 years after point: watch-making company. It was While at Peacock—which is still in the fact, even with the help of that there that John Bergling was first First, John Bergling did not work operation in Chicago—Bergling's individual's direct descendant. exposed to the craft of engraving. in typography, as his daughter, renown as a designer and engraver And yet, if the cause is important Virginia, is quick to point out. It may well have been his first intro- spread far and wide. enough, you take what you can get Typography, as we know it, is the duction to illustration since he had and piece together some sort of His personal touch was requested domain of people in the world of no formal training in drawing up to documented record to make sure by dignitaries and the well-heeled printing, that is, the world of type. then. that the person's legacy is pre- from the Northeast, and Midwest John Bergling was a jewelry en- served for generations to come. According to Virginia, her father and abroad. Many people came to graver, and his original designs were operated his own engraving busi- Chicago just to order his designs In the case of John Mauritz Bergling produced for hand-etching on the ness in Kansas City while continu- and engravings for their fine jew- the cause is more than important surface of each piece, one by one. ing to work at the watch company. elry and silverware. enough. A dapper fellow, J. M. Bergling had a You see, J. M. Bergling—the profes- preference for stylish clothes and a sional moniker he preferred—pro- neat, distinguished appearance. He vided a design bridge between the fit in comfortably with the theatre traditional approaches of Victorian crowd and cafe society which society of the 1800s and the emerg- appreciated his work so much. ing look of contemporary graphics from 1900 through today. Early in his career at Peacock, Ber- gling began to feel a strong empa- Not only did he update and bridge thy with other jewelry engravers the graphics designs of his day, he who struggled for hours to make a also created and constructed liter- particular design work. ally thousands of new letterforms, signets, monograms, ciphers and To help make their lives easier, he graphic devices, many of which still started saving his design sketches retain their dynamic appeal 80 and letterform drawings. In 1908, years later! he published the first edition of Art A remarkable aspect of this whole He did eventually reach California, Monograms & Lettering, which The body of Mr. Bergling's work story is the fact that Bergling, a and found himself in uniform in sold for $2.50. Containing more includes alphabets, variations on a right-handed craftsman, only had San Diego as America prepared for than 300 designs, illustrations and theme, design studies and "applied three fingers on his right hand—the the Spanish-American War. examples of monograms, signets, cleverness" in type-as-an-art-tool. result of a childhood accident. Shortly after his military service, he ciphers, and letterforms within 28 While that type of injury would returned to Chicago, married in have been a handicap to the average 1897, and went to work for the person, it might well have been the C.D. Peacock Company, the leading very inspiration behind the genius jewelry store in town, that same which fueled his craftsmanship for year. more than 30 years. John Bergling continued to work He was born in southern Sweden in for Peacock for the next 35 years, 1866 and came to the United States including his final year which was as a young boy, settling in Chicago spent in bed due to a long illness. with his father. When he became a For most of those years, he was young man, the allure of California Peacock's Master Engraver, respon- and the West drew him away from sible for assigning work to the his family home. other people in his department, A A _J pages, the book was an encyclope- veau and Art Deco—years before dia of engraving art. public notice. It may have provided designers in those other disciplines But John Bergling wasn't interested with the very thrust they needed to in helping only people in the field form their own bridges between of jewelry engraving. He wanted to yesterday and tomorrow. aid all designers and craftspeople who worked with letterforms and Now, years later, a question comes monograms, and artists of all styles. to mind: what could this one man, Therefore, the book included style who was certainly a talented, samples of monogram and signet skilled example of pure Renais- designs as well as alphabet varia- sance Man at his best, have pro- tions on a theme—letters with fili- duced if he had ever turned his gree, letters with leaf-and-vine attention to areas of design com- ornamentation, etc. It also incorpo- pletely outside of letterforms and rated many entertaining drawings: alphabets, such as industrial design? We could be driving a Bergling 8, or borders, mermaids, cowboys, birds, John Bergling thought of himself as together, such as in a monogram. jetting to London on a Bergling 757, gargoyles, lions, dragons, dolphins a letterform "inventor." By publish- Over the course of the years to or rocking in a Bergling Bentwood. and assorted flora. ing his books he made his inven- follow, John Bergling produced For all we know, maybe we are! tions available to other designers He explained it best in his own and published three other books and engravers in the United States As for John Bergling, the man, we words, on the Introduction page: in addition to the first, as well as and Europe, where he had numer- know that he loved plants and " ... While this book is in no sense a monogram/signet letterform style ous ties, especially with engravers flowers and animals. At night he text book and does not partake of —sheets for engravers and other in England. would study these beautiful exam- craftsmen who worked with letters any of the 'dryness' characteristic ples of design from nature, sketch- of works of that kind, I have inter- in design. It is possible that through this chan- ing their delicate intricacies in order nel he influenced the graphic de- polated into the subject-matter Bergling's books are: Art Alphabets to incorporate that beauty in his signers and artists who formed the many interesting things that will & Lettering Art Monograms & work and preserve it for evermore. ground force in the emerging Art make a study of its pages both plea- Lettering Ornamental Designs & Nouveau and Art Deco movements. And so he has. And so he has. surable and instructive. Students Illustrations and Heraldic Designs will find it of inestimable value, for & Engraving. Art Nouveau in the early 1900s, and By Lee Sinoff the study of the severer part of the Art Deco—which was officially After his death in 1933, his daugh- lettering will inspire higher and launched at the Paris Exposition in ter Virginia continued to publish more artistic ideals." 1925—reflected the most modern A. Art Monograms & Lettering-1950 Special Edition. and sell her father's books until Originally published in 1908. Paper, 47 pages. Sold for styles-in art,-architecture, and for $2.50 _ _ _ _ _ _ John Bergling fully understood how 1977, when she sold the publishing difficult and frustrating the work that matter, consumer products of B. Art Monograms and Lettering for the use of Engravers- rights to a school specializing in the Artists-Designers and Art Workmen. Published in 1920, with letterforms could be, especially the time. Bergling's first book, pub- paper, 96 pages. Sold for $3.75. jeweler's arts. The books are still when a designer was faced with the lished in 1908, presented many C. Art Monograms and Alphabets (For Embroidery, available. Applique and Fancy Work). Published in 1938, paper, task of making specific letters work styles we would consider Art Nou- 16 pages. Sold for 81.25. 7